Primary Senior Leader

**British Council School Madrid**:
**2,000 pupils|2-18 years|Co-Educational|BSO, NABSS**:
The British Council School Madrid board is currently seeking to appoint an outstanding, caring and dedicated professional to the position of **Senior Leader** for its Primary School, to support the Section Head in leading the Section and contributing to the strategic priorities at Section level. This position would be a full-time appointment on a permanent teacher contract starting ASAP, and featuring an additional 3 year temporary tenure as an SLT with an allowance.

The new SLT will work closely in Primary with a team of professionals composed of teaching staff, senior and middle leaders, serving the students and their families.

**About the British Council School - Madrid, Spain**

The British Council School was established in Madrid in 1940, at a time when Europe was facing the challenge of the rise of fascism. The school has always offered a bilingual and bicultural education, underpinned by its objective to develop future citizens with the core values of loyalty, flexibility, resilience, caring and challenge. The school facilitates cultural relations engagement with key target audiences through a high-quality, bilingual and bi-cultural curriculum to a school community of 2,000 children from 2 to 18 years of age. The school is part of the British Council, the United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities worldwide. It is an integral part of their work in Spain and one of their flagship instruments of cultural relations.

One of the School's main objectives is to enable students to demonstrate that they live and breathe the school's values, as well as the qualities required by universities and companies around the world, such as leadership, team work, negotiation skill and entrepreneurship.

The British Council and the school support a national network of state bilingual schools. School staff lead on training, offer shadowing opportunities and participate in a range of system wide and school specific improvement and development activities.

Our academic programme encourages passion and achievement in sciences and technology, languages, literature, the dramatic arts, sports and public speaking. High levels of pastoral care are achieved through our vertical Family System, which we believe enables our pupils to be the best that they can be.

Annual cohorts of over 130 students achieve outstanding results at IGCSE level in Year 11. Our students go on to achieve continued success at Sixth Form, through the BiBac (Bilingual Spanish Baccalaureate). British Council School Madrid students go on to study at leading Universities world-wide such as Oxford, Cambridge, Yale and Stanford.

**Why Come to Madrid?**:
Our school is located just 12 kilometres from the heart of Madrid, a vibrant and thriving cosmopolitan city. Our staff has the chance to live and work in a place of great history, culture and cuisine. Opportunities are endless for travel, sport and entertainment, both in the city and country-wide; Spain is one of the top destinations in the world for leisure and holidays.

**What do we offer our Staff?**:

- The opportunity to work with enthusiastic, happy and confident children who enjoy learning
- A welcoming and supportive network of colleagues
- Competitive salaries and fee remission for children of staff members
- An extensive welcome, relocation and integration programme to help new teachers and their families settle into Madrid
- Ongoing and robust professional development opportunities
- Subsidised English or Spanish language courses
- Free annual health check-ups and flu vaccines
- Private health insurance at a reduced rate
- Discounted meals in our canteen, gym membership and free bus travel to and from school

**How to Apply**

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